The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain

by Morrill, John

• ISBN13: 9780192893277
• ISBN10: 0192893270
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780198203254
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Two centuries of dramatic change are covered by this exciting and richly illustrated work. Eighteen leading scholars explore the political, social, religious, and cultural history of the period when monarchs based in south-east England imperfectly attempted to extend their authority over thewhole of the British Isles. These centuries witnessed the Reformation, the civil wars, and two revolutions, in which two monarchs, two wives of a king, and two archbishops of Canterbury were tried and executed, and hundreds of men and women tortured and burned in the name of religion. Yet in the same period, an explosion ofliteracy and the printed word, transformations in landscapes and townscapes, new forms of wealth, new structures of power, and new forms of political participation freed minds and broadened horizons. These centuries marked the beginning of Britain's imperial power and its emergence as perhaps themost liberal and mature of European states. The integrated illustrations and maps form an essential part of the book, complementing all aspects of the text. It also contains a Chronology, Glossary, Family Trees of the monarchy, Further Reading, and an extensive Index.

Author Biography

John Stephen Morrill is Reader in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. The author or editor of 14 books, he is Vice President of the Royal Historical Society.

Table of Contents

List of Colour Plates	ix
List of Maps	xii
Editor's Foreword	xiii
The Changing Landscape	1	(34)
Tom Webster
The Consolidation of England, 1485-1603	35	(18)
Diarmaid Macculloch
The Tudor Borderlands, 1485-1603	53	(21)
Steven G. Ellis
Three Stuart Kingdoms, 1603-1689	74	(16)
John Morrill
Family, Household, and Community	90	(29)
Amy Louise Erickson
An Educated Society	119	(20)
Rosemary O'day
A Law-abiding and Litigious Society	139	(17)
Christopher Brooks
The Theatre and Society	156	(17)
Andrew Gurr
The Aristocracy and their Mental World	173	(18)
John Adamson
The Commons and their Mental Worlds	191	(28)
John Walter
Tudor Monarchy and Political Culture	219	(20)
John Guy
Sturat Monarchy and Political Culture	239	(19)
Kevin Sharpe
The Reformation and the Creation of the Church of England, 1500-1640	258	(35)
Conrad Russell
The Search for Religious Liberty, 1640-1690	293	(17)
Mark Goldie
Politics in an Age of Reformation, 1485-1585	310	(20)
Wallace Maccaffrey
Politics in an Age of Peace and War, 1570-1630	330	(31)
Christopher Haigh
Politics in an Age of Revolution, 1630-1690	361	(36)
John Morrill
England and the World under the Tudors, 1485-1603	397	(19)
Simon Adams
Britain and the World under the Stuarts, 1603-1689	416	(17)
John Reeve
Further Reading	433	(10)
Glossary	443	(8)
Chronology	451	(10)
Maps	461	(5)
Family Tree	466	(3)
List of Picture Sources	469	(2)
Index	471